On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:57:33PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: > > I got the right alt key to stop experiencing the "stuck" behavior by > making this further change to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc (on top of the > patch Branden sent out earlier). With Branden's patch and this, both of > my alt keys work normally again. > > --- etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc 2004-06-27 18:54:35.000000000 -0500 > +++ etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pc.new 2004-06-27 18:55:01.000000000 -0500 > @@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ > key <MDSW> { [ Mode_switch ] }; > modifier_map Mod5 { <LVL3>, <MDSW> }; > > - key <ALT> { [ NoSymbol, Alt_L ] }; > - modifier_map Mod1 { <ALT>, <LALT> }; > + key <ALT> { [ NoSymbol, Alt_L, Alt_R ] }; > + modifier_map Mod1 { <ALT>, <LALT>, <RALT> }; > > key <META> { [ NoSymbol, Meta_L ] }; > modifier_map Mod1 { <META> };
I don't think we can apply this for reasons mentioned in the mailing list thread[1], but for systems that don't have complex keyboard layouts in use, I don't discourage people from modifying this conffile as you have. [1] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/06/msg00471.html -- G. Branden Robinson | The basic test of freedom is Debian GNU/Linux | perhaps less in what we are free to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | do than in what we are free not to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | do. -- Eric Hoffer
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